Colloquial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners
The best Lithuanian language course currently available: This is the best guide (book plus tape) currently available for learning Lithuanian. My brother, who studied at Vilno Universiteto in 1994 - 1995 strongly recommended it to me, and wished he had [... more]
CDN$32.06
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Colloquial Swedish: The Complete Course for Beginners
A great book to get you started.: I learned Swedish without a single formal lesson extremely quickly (in 4 months to fluency whilst living in a Swedish / English speaking environment), and bought and borrowed an enormous range of books to bring me there. [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Colloquial Greek
Look for updated version: There is a later edition of this fine book/audio combination that came out in January of 1995. Ms. Watts has been around the Greek language and its instruction for quite awhile under different publishing houses and has [... more]
CDN$44.10
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Colloquial Danish: The Complete Course for Beginners
OK except for pronunciation: Though Colloquial Danish is in some respects a good introductory book, it is seriously lacking in the one area of the language most challenging for English speakers, namely, pronunciation. Unlike most other textbooks in the [... more]
CDN$24.03
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Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Not quuite for a true beginner: I was disappointed with this approach to teaching the language. The book goes from explaining grammar and pronunciation right into dialog, with no pronunciation or sentence structure breakdown accompanying the dialog [... more]
CDN$41.62
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Colloquial Hungarian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Better than Teach Yourself Hungarian: This book is easy to follow, doesn't overcrowd the pages with information, is written with humour and encourages the student along the way. I do not have the audio cassettes for this book, however I would definitely [... more]
CDN$48.92
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Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Really good book to learn spoken persian: Good points are: lessons are short, everyday life situations, good introduction of written persian, dialogues on the CDs are fast (and thus are close to real world situations), answers to exercises, english- [... more]
CDN$28.08
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Colloquial Albanian
Very helpful, faleminderit!: I have been studying Albanian for over a year and used several texts. The Colloquial Albanian book and cassette set has been one of the most helpful. It follows a logical progression of language building and uses reading/ [... more]
CDN$43.95
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Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Not quuite for a true beginner: I was disappointed with this approach to teaching the language. The book goes from explaining grammar and pronunciation right into dialog, with no pronunciation or sentence structure breakdown accompanying the dialog [... more]
CDN$31.05
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Colloquial Portuguese: The Complete Course for Beginners
This books lacks Brazilian Portuguese.: This book is completely on Continental (or European) Portuguese. At times, dialogs between Brazilians are presented but words and sentence structure is Continental, something Brazilian speakers would never say or [... more]
CDN$23.91
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Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners
Colloquial Panjabi: some thoughts: I like this book very much. The author is someone who enjoys using grammatical terminology and so a first-time language learner might find the book heavy going. My advice is very strongly not to buy the book without [... more]
CDN$34.33
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Colloquial Bulgarian: The Complete Course for Beginners
serious (dull?) but well laid-out approach: This book/tape course has pretty much everything you will need to get to an intermediate level of proficiency. The examples of handwriting are large enough to be useful, with a couple of examples sprinkled in [... more]
CDN$48.11
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